Hotel de Gink -- preparing Muligan stew – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Hotel de Gink -- preparing Muligan stew, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hotel de Gink -- preparing Muligan stew
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This picture shows a meal being prepared under the name "Hotel de Gink," a cheeky title for a makeshift camp. The record gives the title as Bain News Service information that has not been verified, and it gives no date. Mulligan stew was the improvised dish of travelers and hoboes, built from whatever scraps a cook could scrounge, and its place in the picture points to the rough, self-reliant life of itinerant workers in the early twentieth century. Bain News Service made its glass negatives for newspaper and magazine use, so the image likely reflects the press interest in such camps at the time.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,766 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19428 |
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